“you free tonight?”

then go for it.

do you also think it’s okay to, say, use an N-word for Black people who commit crimes?

again, if the person who is making the post doesn’t change the setting, it won’t get filtered. if they type a message in German but the post’s language option is set to English (which I think is the default on some major instances), it won’t get filtered out.

you can usually check what their post’s setting is by starting writing a reply to them, as the language option of your post will switch to the one they post in.

Mastodon relies on users setting the language their post is in manually, so if someone posts in two languages and forgets to switch between them, they don’t get filtered out. I know there are some other pieces of software that switch it automatically, I’m fairly sure Calckey automatically recognized the language you were writing in.

it’s been better marketed, and people struggle with the concept of federation and picking a server. and I guess the invite-only, artificial exclusivity strat has actually paid off for them initially, unlike for Google+.

also, a matter of culture. I’ve seen many newcomers complain about how some long time users act as HOA, reminding everyone to act according to the long-standing rules. many people of colour have experience many forms of racist behaviour, too, which has driven some communities away.

oh, and the federation/defederation business sometimes gets way too messy, which [cynic mode on] makes it difficult for people who want their Personal Brand™ to gain as many followers as possible over the entire network.

oh, they’re not cloning faces, the way I thought they did on the first four reads.

please explain to the rest of us how heterosexual men who have identified as male their entire life are a minority lmao

mother of god, you were right

hypothesis: it does not work recursively

hypothesis: more than 90% of Tumblr screenshots can be made funnier by removing the last captured reply

pretty good analysis of Mozilla’s situation by TechAltar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw-XYrMFb0A

given that that’s where they got 85% of their money from? yeah, probably.

“meet me in the middle”, says the unjust man.
you take a step towards him. he takes a step back.
“meet me in the middle”, says the unjust man.

inb4 “ackshully…”

direct, non-AMP link https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr431lr72jo

*sciatic nerve. “sciatica” is the kind of pain caused by compression of the nerve.

“oh neat, the scorpion is paying me to carry it through the river!”

it’s an anatomical variant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton’s_toe

the creator delayed the launch because he had to write the legalese for the service, and on top of that I think he’s waiting for the app stores to approve the app (the service isn’t available through a browser).